Mr. Mallory's Stuff

Winter PAge Assignments

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:00:00 +0000

29 Sci Bowl/Club- Tyler
30-31 Drill Squad- Danielle
32 Speech- Kaylie
33 MS Spelling Bee- Casey
34 Gnimocemoh- Danielle
35 HSBB Cheer- Christian
36-37 HS Girls BB- Kayla
38-39 HS Boys BB- Tyler
40 MS GBB- Kayla & Kaylie
41 MS BBB- Austin
42 MS BB Cheer- Casey
44 Voice- Austin
45 Archive- Christian

DON'T FORGET TO SELL ADS AND PRE-ORDERS FOR BOOKS

Web Design

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:14:00 +0000

Here's your assignment, hope you enjoyed your "Senior Skip-Day."

Quick Check Questions 2-4, 6-7 on pg 209 (4.2)
Quick Check Questions 1-4, on pg 230 (4.3)

Sub Lessons for Wed. Oct. 21

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:28:00 +0000

Web Design- Read pp.68-69 in DRM 4 handout. Create a sketch of the site layout (1-4 p.69) Also, answer Session 2.2 Quick Check questions on the bottom of p.69. Drawing- Read pp. 123-126, begining with "Choosing a Basic Unit." Answer the following questions;

What two questions does choosing a "Basic Unit" answer when beginning a new drawing?
Complete the sentence from the chapter- "This Basic Unit becomes the key that unlocks all of the _______________ within a chosen composition: All _______________ are found by comparing everything to the _______________."
In your own words, try to define a "Basic Unit" and explain it's importance.
On page 124, Dr. Edwards refers back to chapter 6 when she compares any realistic drawing to a child's jigsaw puzzle. Mr. Mallory has talked about how perceiving negative space shapes and using a "picture frame" has three major parts to that puzzle. What are those three major parts that make up any composition?
A basic unit can be a positive shape, a negative shape, or even just a single edge from point to point. Once chosen, what are determined relative to that Basic Unit?
In your own words, what is meant by "proportion?"
Initially finding and using a Basic Unit may seem forced, mechanical, maybe even a little left-brained, but eventually, what happens for artists, as demonstrated by the story about Matisse on p125?
What kinds of things does using a Basic Unit prevent?

If you have time after reading & answering these questions, you may follow steps 1-4 of the directions which begin on page 127 and/or read all of the directions pp.127-132, but we won't go beyond step 4 until Thursday.

MS Art- 11:30-11:45 DEAR time. Create 4 different artworks about yourself. You can use pencil, crayon, or marker. If you put so much effort into any one of these artworks that you don't get all 4 done, that will be okay. We'll use some time on Friday to finish them.

Draw as realistic of a self-portrait as you can. Just your face, fill most of a page.
Draw yourself as a cartoon character. You can be funny or serious, an animal or a superhero- just so long as you're a cartoon.
Create a trade mark logo for yourself, like the Nike swoosh, the Verizon check mark, the McDonald's M, the Pepsi ying-yang, or the iPod's apple. What symbols represent you?
Create a design using some of your favorite shapes and colors. Are you rectangular, rounded and circular, sharp and triangular? Edgy and rough? Sleek and smooth? Just make some random designs, maybe even a maze, but use lines, shapes, colors, or textures that say something about you.

Ceramics- Work on your skulls. Use the wooden or plastic tools to begin carving or smoothing them and adding details to make them more realistic. Be sure to use the scientific acrylic model skull as your example. You may also work on the wheel, or Amber can work on her shoe. Please clean-up. Tyler should not use computers 5th hour, he can help Laure with Quincey, help Amber with her shoe, or if Casey's back- help her start her skull.

Yearbook- Find examples of each of the 4 main headline types found on pp.68-69; Hammer, Kicker, Wicket, and Tripod. Magazines are in the drawers under the West counter by the windows. Please cut out each example and glue it to a sheet of paper. Label which of the 4 types it is and put your name on the top right corner of the sheet and turn them in. Once you're finished you may work on yearbook pages on yearbookavrnue.com. Many of the pictures on in the " //Server1/Archive" can be treated for red-eye and be resized in Photoshop and then uploaded to the image gallery.

MS Cheer- Sorry Ladies, please come back 7th hour Thursday- meanwhile please stay in study hall.

Formal Writing Project; Professional Web Planning and Proposal

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:47:00 +0000

Read the 'Dreamweaver Tutorial 2' hand-out and follow the directions for each of the exercises, but instead of tailoring your work for the "Cosmatic" case study provided, customize your research and proposals for your own mock-company Web site, which you will be working on for the remainder of the semester. That site will constitute your final project.

Turn in each steps on the deadlines listed below but save your work because you will turn it all in together in a presentation folder at the end as your Formal writing project.

Here is a list of steps and deadlines:

First the Purpose

List of site goals (p.49 in DRM Tutorial 2 hand-out) Due Oct. 7
Target Audience (p.51) Due Oct. 8
Information Gathering (p.53)
Explore examples/"competition" (p.55)
End-User Scenario (p55) Steps 3-5 Due Oct. 12
Session 2.1 Quick Check Questions (p56) Due Oct 13

Next the Architecture

Outline (p.57) Due Oct 14
Flowchart (p58) Also Due Oct 14
Concept & Metaphor (p.60) Due Oct 15
Color Scheme (p.64) Due Oct 16

Quiz over DRM Tut 2 Vocab on Fri Oct 16

We will resume working in the HTML/HXTML book on Mon. Oct 19 with Tutorial 4; Designing with tables, but Proposal steps will continue to be due

5. Font Choices (p.66) Due Oct 19
6. Graphics (p.67) Due Oct 20
7. Layout Sketch (p.69) Due Oct 21
8. DRM Tutorial 2 Session 2.2 Quick Check Questions (p.69) Due Oct. 22

Professional Proposal Terms

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:35:00 +0000

Quiz on Friday, October 16

accessibility
additive color system
client
end-user scenario
flowchart
font
font color
font size
font style
generic font families
hexadecimal color code
information architecture
layout
market research
metaphor
monospaced font
navigation system
proportional font
RGB system
sans-serif typeface
serif typeface
site concept
subtractive color system
target audience
user profile
Web Safe Color Palette

Tutorial 3; Color and Fonts

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:34:00 +0000

Session 3.1 Quick Check questions 1-9 due Wednesday Sept. 30
Session 3.2 QC questions 3, 4, & 5
AND Session 3.3 QC questions 3, 4, & 5 due Friday Oct. 2
Tutorial 3; Arcadium Web site due Thurs Oct. 8
Tutorial 3 Test, Friday Oct. 9

Child Drawing Developmental Stages

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:23:00 +0000

Scribbling (AGE 1 1/2)
Symbols Begin (2-3)
Adding Details (3-4)
Telling Stories (4-5)
Landscapes (5-6) Composition/Principles reign
Complexity builds (Grades 5-7)
Gender Differentiated
Desperately Seeking Realism (ages 10-11) Details/Elements reign, at the expense of good composition.

The naturally developed left brained symbol-system eventually eclipses accurate perceptions.

Fall Production assignments

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:06:00 +0000

Required Photo Assignments, Due by or before Mon, Sep. 28

All 4 Spirit Week dress-up days
click here to see list
One framed subject
Odd angle
Them :"ONE in every crowd"

Extra Credit Photo Opportunities:

Decorating Fri 9/18
Coronation Sun 9/20
Jersey Auction 9/20
Pep Rally Fri 9/25
Parade Fri 9/25

Page/Spread Assignments

5 Softball/Baseball-
Talent Search- Tyler
Stu Govt.- Tyler
NHS/FCCLA- Cody
10-11 Homecoming- Kaylie
12-13 Homecoming- Christian
14 Fall Cheer- Austin
15- Cross Country- Austin
16-17 Football- Christine
18-19 Volleyball- Kayla
20 MS Football- Casey
21 MS Cheer- Danielle
22 MS Volleyball- Christian
23 MS Cross Country- Casey

Picasso/Stravinsky Drawing Reflection Questions

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:07:00 +0000

What were at least 3 conditions that we used to help reduce the conflict between brain hemispheres, so that your left-mode would give up and allow your right-mode to dominate the work load for this drawing?
Try to remember how you felt when you first began this drawing- can you describe those feelings? Why do you think you felt that way?
How did it feel by the end of the drawing, once you were caught-up in it?
Why do you think you were required to draw Stravinsky Upside-Down? Do you think that made it easier or more difficult?
At what point do you think you may have made the shift from left to right? What did it feel like? Do you think you'll recognize it if it happens again?
What was the easiest/funnest part to draw?
What was the most difficult/least fun?
What about your finished product are you most pleased with?
What are you least pleased with?

Practice Pages on yearbookavenue

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:03:00 +0000

Practice Pages is one new feature that you will find particularly helpful this time of year as you train your staff members. Here is how it works:

Go to Page Designer under the Create menu
Go to File/New Practice page. Enter a name for your page and save.
A double page spread will open and you can utilize all of the tools on the site to practice page design and experiment with different photo and text effects.
You can access saved practice pages by selecting the Designs tab in the right navigation. Click on Custom and then select Practice Pages in the drop down menu.
If you want to use a practice page design in your book, just drag and drop it onto a page.

Production

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:07:00 +0000

Read pp.50-55, &86-91 taking notes as you go on the "Production" and "Photography 1" modules
Use the "Activity 14.3" and "Quiz 14" handout as a study guide for the Photography 1 module, due Fri 9/11
Quiz on Monday 9/14
Don't forget to keep working on those photo event, pre-order sales, ad sales, and old book sales grades- just because they're quarter-long, don't put them off till mid October!

Tutorial 1 assignments

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:56:00 +0000

Sessions 1.2 & 1.3 (Chemistry Teacher's web page) due by end of class Fri. 9/11
'Quick Check' questions on page 43 due Mon. 9/14
Quiz over terms on pp. 43-44 will be Wed. 9/16

Get well soon, Cody!

Signature Self-Portraits

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:06:00 +0000

Handwriting can be considered as a form of expressive drawing. After all, it consists primarily of the most fundamental element of design, line. Our signatures are shaped by our cultural influences in our lives, just like any work created by any artist.

After learning about the character and style possibilities of line, and a little bit about handwriting analysis, we created self-portraits using only signatures.

Ceramics Vocab- QUIZ TUES SEP4

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:10:00 +0000

Bat- a flat disc made of plaster or wood which affixes to a pottery wheel. Works like a plate or tray for working with clay on.
Bisque- Pottery which has been fired once, without being glazed yet.
Bone Dry- Completely air-dried and ready to be fired in a kiln safely
Clay- Alumina + Silica (powdered stone aka "feldspar") and water
Plastic- Capable of being molded or modeled
Plasticine- A plastic paste used for models and sculptures; an oil-based modeling clay
Medium- a means of transmission, a liquid which carries or suspends something- oil or water
Working- Sqiushing clay in your hand to make it warmer
Form- Any 3-Dimensional shape, which has height, width, and depth
Paul Cezane- French painter who suggested that the visual world is made up of 5 basic forms; cubes, spheres, forms, pyramids, and cones

Homework

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:48:00 +0000

Session 1.1 Quick Check
questions 1-7
page "HTML 9"
DUE Tues SEP 8

Your Second Web Page

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:26:00 +0000

Using the inline elements codes you have learned so far, create a Web page containing the following:

A link to the first Web page you created. You will have to use what's called an "absolute path"
{a href="\Fouts\WEB 1\Fouts_holli.html"}
An absolute path means that you direct browsers through the correct files to the specific document.
A link to a document withing your website (I will put a PDF for you to use)
A graphic (also in your folders for you)
Each of the following formatting styles: bold, big, small, italics, strike through, underline, super-script, and sub-script.
At least one horizontal rule
Headings 1, 2, and 3

Assignments this week

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:59:00 +0000

Signature Self Portrait, Due Monday, Aug. 31
Write comments on each of your 5 Pre-Instructional Drawings, Also due Mon. 8/31
Product/Noun- Finished Drawing

What are you most proud of about it?
What are you most disappointed about with?

Process/Verb- When you were drawing, the act of drawing it
What did you enjoy drawing this one?
What was the most difficult?

Clay Terms

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:56:00 +0000

Expect a quiz by or before Friday, September 4

Clay
Maquette
Medium
Plastic
Plasticine

Packaging contest

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:24:00 +0000

http://www.udipsweepstakes.com/gm_packagedesign.php

Redesign the Marzetti caramel apple dip package and you can win a 20 inch iMac computer!
You can draw on an existing package or download a template online. Deadline: November 30

MS Art Vocab

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:57:00 +0000

Clay
Medium
Plastic
Plasticine
Maquette

Fall Sports Photo Grades

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:17:00 +0000

This season, Boyer Valley has...

10 different sports teams including both ms & hs
at least 66 sporting events
10 Yearbook staff members

Yet year after year we fail to get enough sports pictures- especially for middle school. Therefore, this year each staff member will have two grades for sports pictures first quarter. Please turn in at least a minimum of 20 pictures, 10 each for one of two sporting events, preferably of different sports. For example, 10 of a MS Volleyball game and 10 of a Cross Country meet.

Mr. Mallory can easily take Football and Cheer, but we need Volleyball, MS Volleyball, XC and Drill. You can certainly turn in pictures of practices as well and if you take pictures at 3 or more events, anything beyond the first two will be extra-credit.

Sports include:

Varsity Football
9/JV Football
MS Football
Varsity Volleyball
9/JV Volleyball
HS Cross Country
MS Cross Country
Fall Varsity Cheerleading
Fall MS Cheerleading
Drill Squad

You may also fulfill either of these two assignments by bringing in Softball or Baseball pictures from this past summer.

It would be better if you took these pictures yourself, however, if you have difficulty with scheduling conflicts, parental permission, or transportation issues- you may ask someone to take the pictures for you. Please let us know who they are so that we can give you grade credit, but give them credit for any pictures used in the yearbook, Voice, Reporter, or school website.

There will be similar yearbook sports-photo assignments each quarter as part of your grade so that we can get pictures from other seasons.

Good quote for teachers

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:37:00 +0000

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Compositing images

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:19:00 +0000

Here is a simple example of what wild things you can come up with using composite imaging.

Pre-Instructional Drawings

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:29:00 +0000

A realistic face, from memory or imagination -Due 8/20
A chair- from real life -Due 8/21
A face, from real life -Due 8/24
A whole person (as much as you can fit on the page), also from real life -Due 8/24
Your self-portrait -Draw in class on Mon 8/24

Ad/Book Sales Grade Component

noreply@blogger.com (Mallory) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:24:00 +0000

Sell at least 4 ads of any size

B/W or color, to either a business, parent, or NPO

4 Ads = A
3 Ads = B
2 Ads = C
1 Ad = D
0 Ads = F

Sell at least 10 2009-10 Yearbook Pre-Orders

Before Christmas 2009 still just $36
Jan-May 2010 Pre-Orders $39

A= 9-10 book orders
B= 7-8
C= 5-6
D= 3-4

Sell at least 8 "Old School" Yearbooks

2008-09 $36
2007-08 $36
2006-07, 2005-06 $30
1978-2005 $25 (While supplies last)

A= 7-8 book sold
B= 5-6
C= 3-4
D= 1-2